Re: Preserving window layout

Re: Preserving window layout

[Glyn Millington]

Matthew Calhoun <calhounm@mac.com> writes:

> What I would like do is keep this basic layout the same, viewing
> various buffers only in the top two windows, and keeping the shell
> window undisturbed at the bottom. So, is there some way to "lock" a
> screen layout, or at least a single window? And can I prevent my shell
> buffer from being replaced by other buffers?

I wonder if winring.el will give you what you need

Take a look at 

http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html

in general and the winring package in particular ;-)

hth



Glyn

Re: Preserving window layout

[Galen Boyer]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, calhounm@mac.com wrote:

> The problem is, when I do something like command-apropos it wreaks
> havoc on my nice little environment - the shell buffer grows to take
> up half of the frame, and the *Apropos* buffer has taken the place of
> *shell*.

Try this.

(setq special-display-buffer-names
      '(("*Apropos*"
	 (top . 5)
	 (left . 100)
	 (width . 90)
	 (height . 50)
	 (background-color . "gray60")
	 (menu-bar-lines . 0))
	"*Backtrace*" "*Input History*" "*Occur*" "*grep*"
	))

The above may need a tweak, I cut it out of alot more buffers being
referenced.  I think you can play with this and get it to your liking. 
-- 
Galen deForest Boyer
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

Re: Preserving window layout

[Johan Bockgård]

Matthew Calhoun <calhounm@mac.com> writes:

> Sort of a poor man's IDE. The problem is, when I do something like
> command-apropos it wreaks havoc on my nice little environment - the
> shell buffer grows to take up half of the frame, and the *Apropos*
> buffer has taken the place of *shell*.

Another approach

,----[ C-h k C-x r w ]
| C-x r w runs the command window-configuration-to-register
|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `register'.
| (window-configuration-to-register REGISTER &optional ARG)
| 
| Store the window configuration of the selected frame in register REGISTER.
| Use C-x r j to restore the configuration.
| Argument is a character, naming the register.
`----

(info "(emacs)RegConfig")

You might want to bind those to some nice keys.

Also see

(info "(emacs)Windows")
(info "(emacs)Window Convenience")

-- 
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the
day they start making vacuum cleaners. -- Ernst Jan Plugge

Re: Preserving window layout

[Jason Earl]

Matthew Calhoun <calhounm@mac.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to set up Emacs in a way that I think will be nice for
> coding: I have a single full-screen frame with two large side-by-side
> windows for editing source files and whatnot, and below these two
> there's a third window with a shell in it, which takes up the entire
> frame width. It looks something like this:
>
> -----------------------
> |          |          |
> |          |          |
> |  source  |  source  |
> |          |          |
> |          |          |
> -----------------------
> |        shell        |
> -----------------------
>
> Sort of a poor man's IDE. The problem is, when I do something like
> command-apropos it wreaks havoc on my nice little environment - the
> shell buffer grows to take up half of the frame, and the *Apropos*
> buffer has taken the place of *shell*.
>
> What I would like do is keep this basic layout the same, viewing
> various buffers only in the top two windows, and keeping the shell
> window undisturbed at the bottom. So, is there some way to "lock" a
> screen layout, or at least a single window? And can I prevent my shell
> buffer from being replaced by other buffers?
>
> In case it matters, I'm using Emacs 21.1.1 in Mac OS X's Terminal
> application.

I don't know anything about Mac OS X, but I quite often do something
like this:


  +-----------+	 +-----------+ +--+
  |           |	 |           | |  |
  |           |	 |           | |  |
  |  source   |	 |   docs    | |  |   speedbar
  |           |	 |           | |  |   ----
  |           |	 |           | | <+--/ 	  
  |           |	 |           | |  |	 
  |           |	 |           | |  |	 
  +-----------+	 |           | |  |	 
  |           |	 |           | |  |	 
  |           |	 |           | |  |	 
  |  shell    |	 |           | |  |	 
  |           |	 |           | |  |	 
  +-----------+	 +-----------+ +--+

Basically this is two normal frames, one of them with a small shell
window and a speed bar.  It does pretty much everything your setup
does, but it's a bit easier to maintain.  It takes a fair amount of
screen real estate, but so does your setup.

Jason

Re: Preserving window layout (follow up)

[Matthew Calhoun]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I found a really helpful function that 
I'm surprised nobody mentioned, though: set-window-dedicated-p prevents 
Emacs from messing with a particular window. I wound up writing a small 
function that sets up my windows as described, calls this function for 
the shell window, and then calls the window-configuration-to-register 
function that Johan mentioned. Seems to work pretty well.

Thanks again,
Matt

El Saturday, 7 June, 2003, a las 02:16  PM, Johan Bockgård escribió:

> Matthew Calhoun <calhounm@mac.com> writes:
>
>> Sort of a poor man's IDE. The problem is, when I do something like
>> command-apropos it wreaks havoc on my nice little environment - the
>> shell buffer grows to take up half of the frame, and the *Apropos*
>> buffer has taken the place of *shell*.
>
> Another approach
>
> ,----[ C-h k C-x r w ]
> | C-x r w runs the command window-configuration-to-register
> |    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `register'.
> | (window-configuration-to-register REGISTER &optional ARG)
> |
> | Store the window configuration of the selected frame in register 
> REGISTER.
> | Use C-x r j to restore the configuration.
> | Argument is a character, naming the register.
> `----
>
> (info "(emacs)RegConfig")
>
> You might want to bind those to some nice keys.
>
> Also see
>
> (info "(emacs)Windows")
> (info "(emacs)Window Convenience")
>
> -- 
> The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the
> day they start making vacuum cleaners. -- Ernst Jan Plugge
> _______________________________________________
> Help-gnu-emacs mailing list
> Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
>

Re: Preserving window layout (follow up)

[Robert Hundt]

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Hey Matthew,

  please send me this function ... ;-)

-- Robert

"Matthew Calhoun" <calhounm@mac.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.7740.1055367556.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
Thanks for all the suggestions. I found a really helpful function that
I'm surprised nobody mentioned, though: set-window-dedicated-p prevents
Emacs from messing with a particular window. I wound up writing a small
function that sets up my windows as described, calls this function for
the shell window, and then calls the window-configuration-to-register
function that Johan mentioned. Seems to work pretty well.

Thanks again,
Matt

El Saturday, 7 June, 2003, a las 02:16  PM, Johan Bockgård escribió:

> Matthew Calhoun <calhounm@mac.com> writes:
>
>> Sort of a poor man's IDE. The problem is, when I do something like
>> command-apropos it wreaks havoc on my nice little environment - the
>> shell buffer grows to take up half of the frame, and the *Apropos*
>> buffer has taken the place of *shell*.
>
> Another approach
>
> ,----[ C-h k C-x r w ]
> | C-x r w runs the command window-configuration-to-register
> |    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `register'.
> | (window-configuration-to-register REGISTER &optional ARG)
> |
> | Store the window configuration of the selected frame in register
> REGISTER.
> | Use C-x r j to restore the configuration.
> | Argument is a character, naming the register.
> `----
>
> (info "(emacs)RegConfig")
>
> You might want to bind those to some nice keys.
>
> Also see
>
> (info "(emacs)Windows")
> (info "(emacs)Window Convenience")
>
> --
> The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the
> day they start making vacuum cleaners. -- Ernst Jan Plugge
> _______________________________________________
> Help-gnu-emacs mailing list
> Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
>

Re: Preserving window layout (follow up)

[Matthew Calhoun]

Sure. Here it is:

(defun lock-window ()
   "Prevent Emacs from messing with the current window."
   (interactive)
   (set-window-dedicated-p (frame-selected-window) t)
   (message "Locked window."))

(defun ide ()
   "Set up a simple IDE-like environment."
   (interactive)
   (split-window-vertically -8)
   (other-window 1)
   (shell)
   (lock-window)
   (other-window 1)
   (split-window-horizontally)
   ; Make sure we can get back here if our setup somehow gets messed up 
(use 'C-x r j i')
   (window-configuration-to-register ?i)
   (message "IDE initialized. Use 'C-x r j i' to return to this window 
configuration."))

El Monday, 16 June, 2003, a las 04:06  PM, 
help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org escribió:

> Hey Matthew,
>
>   please send me this function ... ;-)
>
> -- Robert
>
> "Matthew Calhoun" <calhounm@mac.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.7740.1055367556.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...

> Thanks for all the suggestions. I found a really helpful function that
> I'm surprised nobody mentioned, though: set-window-dedicated-p prevents
> Emacs from messing with a particular window. I wound up writing a small
> function that sets up my windows as described, calls this function for
> the shell window, and then calls the window-configuration-to-register
> function that Johan mentioned. Seems to work pretty well.
>
> Thanks again,
> Matt
>
> El Saturday, 7 June, 2003, a las 02:16  PM, Johan Bockgård escribió:
>
>> Matthew Calhoun <calhounm@mac.com> writes:
>>
>>> Sort of a poor man's IDE. The problem is, when I do something like
>>> command-apropos it wreaks havoc on my nice little environment - the
>>> shell buffer grows to take up half of the frame, and the *Apropos*
>>> buffer has taken the place of *shell*.
>>
>> Another approach
>>
>> ,----[ C-h k C-x r w ]
>> | C-x r w runs the command window-configuration-to-register
>> |    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `register'.
>> | (window-configuration-to-register REGISTER &optional ARG)
>> |
>> | Store the window configuration of the selected frame in register
>> REGISTER.
>> | Use C-x r j to restore the configuration.
>> | Argument is a character, naming the register.
>> `----
>>
>> (info "(emacs)RegConfig")
>>
>> You might want to bind those to some nice keys.
>>
>> Also see
>>
>> (info "(emacs)Windows")
>> (info "(emacs)Window Convenience")
>>